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MCC Team Wins International Exemplary Leadership Award

(Bradenton
,Fla.Feb. 8, 2005)
-An eight-member Manatee Community College
(MCC) Faculty Professional Development Team won a 2005
International Leadership Award from The Chair Academy. The MCC
team will be honored March 4 at The Chair Academy's
14th Annual International Conference inFort Lauderdale.

News of the team's achievement will be published in
the 2005 International Exemplary Leadership Awards Booklet, the
Chair Academy's spring juried journal, Leadership, and
on the Academy's Web site. The award recognizes the team's
ability to advance academic and administrative
leadership.

"The team played a major part as a change agent in
leading MCC through the paradigm shift from teaching to
learning. It continues to play a key role in designing and
implementing innovative, best-practice faculty development
activities," said Darlene Wedler-Johnson, dean, arts and
letters & social and behavioral sciences. She nominated the
team for the award.